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This Day in History – July 30

Friday, July 30, 2010

Today is the 211th day of 2010. There are 154 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight

Lisa Kudrow, best known for her role as Phoebe in the US television series Friends, elebrates 47 years today. (Photo: AP)

1990: on his fourth day being held hostage, Prime Minister Arthur N R Robinson of Trinidad offers to resign, call elections and grant his captors amnesty.

Other Notable Events

1907: Elections are held in Philippines for the country's first assembly. The new 80-member assembly is directly elected by a restricted electorate, making it the first elective legislative body in Southeast Asia.

1930: Host Uruguay wins first soccer World Cup, at Montevideo's Centenario Stadium, beating Argentina 4-2.

1953: Britain signs alliance with Libya.

1974: Greece, Turkey and Britain sign declaration for cease-fire agreement on Cyprus.

1982: Panamanian President Aristides Royo Sanchez resigns two years before the end of his six-year term under pressure from the country's military leaders.

1989: Poland's government announces controversial program to end food price controls and meat rationing.

1991: UN weapons experts report finding 46,000 chemical weapons in Iraq, about four times what Baghdad had declared.

1993: Guards at a Lima, Peru, museum walk out with golden relics of the Incas – most of which they later melt down.

1995: Rebel Serbs in Croatia retreat and promise not to attack government troops in an effort to prevent attacks on their stronghold.

1999: The worst blackout in Taiwanese history cuts off electricity to 7 million households – one-third of the island – causing panic and fear that it might be under attack by China. a collapsed utility tower is the culprit and it is unrelated to recent tensions with the mainland.

2000: North and South Korea announce they will reopen border liaison offices and reconnect a rail line linking the two countries.

2002: President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwandan President Paul Kagame sign a peace agreement intended to bring an end to the devastating civil war that started in 1998.

2008: a team of European scientists unveils a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters' paintings, recreating a colour portrait of a woman's face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.

Today's Birthdays

Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter (1511-1574); Emily Bronte, British author (1818-1848); Henry Ford, US auto pioneer (1863-1947); Henry Moore, British sculptor (1898-1986); Peter Bogdanovich, US producer/director (1939-); Paul Anka, Canadian singer (1941-); Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor/politician (1947-); Laurence Fishburne, US actor (1961-); Lisa Kudrow, US actress (1963-).

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